May 12, 2020, is International Nurses Day and has the motto "Nursing the World to Health". With this, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) focuses on the great importance of professional nursing for all people of this world - not only in times of the Corona pandemic. ICN President Annette Kennedy put the day in both historical and contemporary context: "On May 12, we celebrate the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale - and she would be immensely proud of what professional nurses are doing right now in the fight against COVID-19. But she would also be at least as concerned about their health and safety."
"International Nurses' Day is also a special event at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, since the nursing and midwifery courses we offer are an important element of our social orientation," emphasizes University President Prof. Dr. Peter Mudra. So much it is quite pleasing that the professionally maintaining on the occasion of the current Corona crisis as occupation group a larger perception experiences, may not be overlooked the glaring problems in the care and midwife range, so Mudra further. The constantly increasing requirements, which are connected among other things with the medical development, showed in their practice-referred reflection that there is not only a quantitative problem in the sense of the care emergency used again and again as catchword, but also that the qualitative, technical advancement represents a durable challenge. "With our diverse offerings in the area of bachelor's and master's programs, we here in Ludwigshafen are making a contribution to the professional field and to society," Mudra is convinced.
In connection with the implementation of partial academization in the nursing professions, the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, together with the University of Trier, was appointed last year by Science Minister Prof. Dr. Konrad Wolf as the health focus of Rhineland-Palatinate. Currently, the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences has a total of seven degree programs in the health sector in its portfolio.
